28 Jan 2016
Golden Bay Cement v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2016] NZACC 9
- Court
- District Court
The Court found on the evidence that a property or characteristic in the claimant's employment (forklift driving with repetitive wrist deviation and periodic heavy manual handling) contributed to the bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome and that no non-employment activity explained the condition; however, experts did not apply the correct statutory comparator/test for s30(2)(c) and the evidence was therefore insufficient on whether the risk was significantly greater for workers doing those tasks, so the appeal was allowed in part and ACC was directed to reinvestigate s30(2)(c).